Although Japan is widely used in the Greco-Roman calendar to count the years, it is also used for official documents use the calendar Nengo.
With the calendar Nengo years are counted from the rise of a new emperor to the throne and adding a general name for this new era of Emperor. So every time you change of emperor starts from one another but changing the name of the era.
Here it's ages since this system was changed to now

(1868-1912). Meiji - 明治 (1868-1912).

(1912-1926). Taishō - 大正 (1912-1926).

(1926-1989). Showa - 昭和 (1926-1989).

(1989-…). Heisei - 平成 (1989 - ...).

So, now we're in Japan in the year Heisei 18.
Although since the present Emperor Akihito acceded to the throne on January 7, 1989 and in Japan as you know are not Christians as the New Year is also celebrated a different day than the rest of Christian countries, as the change of year is quite formal and is governed by the calendar Nengo. So on December 31 will be a normal day here in Japan and January 7th we will make a party to celebrate the day of the year the New Year is celebrated on January 1.

de los inocentes que se celebra en Japón el día 1 de abril y lo he cambiado por el texto correcto . PS: What I've crossed in the post is a white lie that I told you to spendest a joke on April Fools Day which is celebrated in Japan on April 1 and I changed to the correct text.

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